Eviction in Baltimore City

[Latressa Byrd]

I have a tenant that is not paying rent (Jan/Feb). In rent court she told the judge she is not paying because she does not have heat, he awarded me the judgement and told her to go to escrow if she has an issue. Each time the rent is due she claims to have a heat problem and I send a technician out and he confirms there is no issue. After court she went to open a rent escrow case. My question is does this in any way stop my eviction against her? If she is still there next month do I need to file again for non payment of rent? Or do I just wait the 4 days and get the warrant of restitution signed and proceed with the eviction? 

[Jamal L.]

@Latressa Byrd

In cases such as this we file every time their late, even if they go to escrow. The reason we do so is because once we file the warrant of restitution and they somehow come up with the funds for rent we want to build the case that if they are late 4 times within that year we can evict them regardless if they pay late again. That way they cant continue to play those type of games.